http://arxiv.org/abs/2006.04385
The 39-meter European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) is expected to have very low throughput in the blue part of the visible spectrum. Because of that, a blue-optimised spectrograph at the 8-meter Very Large Telescope could potentially be competitive against the E-ELT at wavelengths shorter than 400 nm. A concept study for such an instrument was concluded in 2012. This would be a high-throughput, medium resolution (R $\sim$ 20\,000) spectrograph, operating between 300 and 400 nm. It is currently expected that construction of this instrument will start in the next few years. In this contribution, I present a summary of the instrument concept and of some of the possible Galactic and extragalactic science cases that motivate such a spectrograph.
R. Smiljanic
Tue, 9 Jun 20
60/94
Comments: 4 pages, to appear on the Proceedings of the XXXIX meeting of the Polish Astronomical Society (9-12.09.2019, Olsztyn, Poland)
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